`Sweetie' film is planned

A movie which will include dramatisation of the 30-year affair between Mr Charles Haughey and Ms Terry Keane could be on cinema…

A movie which will include dramatisation of the 30-year affair between Mr Charles Haughey and Ms Terry Keane could be on cinema screens by the middle of next year, writes Kitty Holland.

Journalist and author Kevin O'Connor said yesterday he was at an "advanced stage" of negotiations with an Irish production company for the rights to Sweetie, the book he wrote on the journalist Ms Keane and her affair with Mr Haughey. It was published last year.

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